River Phoenix movie quotes

“I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.”
River Phoenix

“- Chris: How do you know if a Frenchman has been in your backyard?
- Teddy: Hey, I'm French, okay?
- Chris: Your garbage cans are empty and your dog's pregnant.
- Teddy: Didn't I just say I was French?”
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers
Corey Feldman - Teddy Duchamp

“- Danny Pope: They need me.
- Lorna Phillips: I need you.”
River Phoenix - Danny Pope
Martha Plimpton - Lorna Phillips

“- Chris: I'm never gonna get out of this town. Am I, Gordie?
- Gordie: You can do anything you want, man.
- Chris: Yeah, sure. Give me some skin.
- Gordie: I'll see ya.
- Chris: Not if I see you first.”
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers
Wil Wheaton - Gordie Lachance

“- Teddy: This is my age! I'm in the prime of my youth, and I'll only be young once!
- Chris: Yeah, but you're gonna be stupid for the rest of your life.”
Corey Feldman - Teddy Duchamp
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers

“- Danny Pope: If you want to go back, that's fine with me.
- Lorna Phillips: You're a bully.
- Danny Pope: No. I'm a liar.”
River Phoenix - Danny Pope
Martha Plimpton - Lorna Phillips

Wish the hell I was your dad. You wouldn't be goin' around talkin' about takin' these stupid shop courses if I was. It's like God gave you something, man, all those stories you can make up. And He said, "This is what we got for ya, kid. Try not to lose it". Kids lose everything unless there's someone there to look out for them. And if your... (continue)(continue reading)

River Phoenix - Chris Chambers

“- Danny Pope: So, what are you doing over the summer?
- Lorna Phillips: I have a job pumping gas.
- Danny Pope: You finally got the Supreme Court to hear your case, huh?
- Lorna Phillips: Yeah.”
River Phoenix - Danny Pope
Martha Plimpton - Lorna Phillips

“The richkids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.”
River Phoenix

“- Eddie Birdlace: Why do we bullshit each other like this?
- Berzin: Are you kidding me? Look, I bullshit you, you bullshit me. We take our bullshit from the military, who takes their bullshit from President Kennedy, who takes bullshit from everyone else. And that's what makes us Americans, Birdlace.”
River Phoenix - Eddie Birdlace
Richard Panebianco - Berzin

- Scott Favor: Getting away from everything feels good.
- Mike Waters: Yeah, it does.
- Scott Favor: When I left home, the maid asked me where I was off to. I said "Wherever. Whatever. Have a nice day!".
Keanu Reeves - Scott Favor
River Phoenix - Mike Waters

“- Rose: What's a 'jarhead'?
- Eddie Birdlace: That's just what we call ourselves. You see, I'm a United States marine. It's okay if we say it but if a squid says it, you know, a sailor? Then it's fist city. But it's alright if a woman says it... especially if she can sing as good as you can.
- Rose: Thanks. Thanks very much. Jarhead.”
Lili Taylor - Rose
River Phoenix - Eddie Birdlace

“- Mike Waters: You're the only one I can ask, you know that Walt! Please! I'll owe you a date, how about that? I'll owe you a date. Please.
- Walt: Oh God, tears crying, hold on. Here you go.”

River Phoenix - Mike Waters
Robert Lee Pitchlynn - Walt

“I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars.”
River Phoenix

“I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter?”
River Phoenix

“It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.”
River Phoenix

“If we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.”
River Phoenix

“Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.”
River Phoenix

“Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.”
River Phoenix

“I need to collect myself... Alright. It's you and I. No way out. Get your shit together. Okay? Okay. Let's go.”
River Phoenix - Devo

“- Mike Waters: You're calling me a coward? You fat duck!
- Bob Pigeon: I'd give a thousand dollars to be able to run as fast as you can.
- Mike Waters: It'll never happen Bob.”
River Phoenix - Mike Waters
William Richert - Bob Pigeon

“- James Wright: How many Beatles are there?
- Kyle Davidson: Three... and Ringo.”
River Phoenix - James Wright
Dermot Mulroney - Kyle Davidson

“- Miranda Presley: We'll have a fight, and I'll pretend to slap you, or shoot you in the leg or something.
- James Wright: Got a better idea.
- Miranda Presley: What?
- James Wright: Let's get married.
- Miranda Presley: You don't just get married as a joke.
- James Wright: It's not a joke. It's a journey.”
Samantha Mathis - Miranda Presley
River Phoenix - James Wright

- Chris: "Suck my fat one"? Whoever told you that you had a fat one, Lachance?
- Gordie: Biggest one in four counties.
River Phoenix - Chris Chambers
Wil Wheaton - Gordie Lachance

“- Elizabeth Grant: What time will you be home?
- Jeff Grant: 5, 6... something like that.
- Elizabeth Grant: Could you be a little more specific? I get tired of cooking dinner twice.”
Caroline Kava - Elizabeth Grant
River Phoenix - Jeff Grant